Deserialization in Veritas Enterprise Vault
CVE-2021-44678
An issue (2 of 6) was discovered in Veritas Enterprise Vault through 14.1.2. On start-up, the Enterprise Vault application starts several services that listen on random .NET Remoting TCP ports for possible commands from client applications. These TCP services can be exploited due to deserialization behavior that is inherent to the .NET Remoting service. A malicious attacker can exploit both TCP remoting services and local IPC services on the Enterprise Vault Server. This vulnerability is mitigated by properly configuring the servers and firewall as described in the vendor's security alert for this vulnerability (VTS21-003, ZDI-CAN-14076).
Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.019 (78.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.019 · change: +0.001
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS21-003 (Vendor Advisory)
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1591/ (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2021-44678?
- CVE-2021-44678 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Veritas Enterprise Vault, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-12-06.
- How severe is CVE-2021-44678?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.